These posts feature news and tutorials for the Gutenberg block editor in WordPress.
Over the last couple of years, more and more WordPress users have adopted the Gutenberg block editor. We use it for all the PublishPress sites, and an increasing number of support tickets are about Gutenberg. We had an interesting support ticket recently: a customer wanted to hide links in the menu that is attached to…
“Block Permissions” is one of the most popular features in the PublishPress Blocks plugin. This feature allows you to control which blocks are available to different user roles. For example, if you want to prevent some user roles from adding “Table” blocks, you can block them from doing that with this feature. The system is…
PublishPress Blocks is one of our most popular plugins. Honestly, that’s a little surprising to me. One reason that’s surprising is because the plugin has a smaller potential audience than most. It’s only for people who use the WordPress block editor. The plugin isn’t helpful if you’re using Elementor, Beaver Builder, or another page-builder.
In this guide, I’m going to show you to hide Gutenberg blocks that you don’t want some WordPress users to access. As more plugin developers support Gutenberg, you may end up with a very long list of blocks. Or you may simply not want to give some users access to some functionality.
Welcome to episode #1 of the PublishPress podcast. In these podcast, we’re talk with people involved in WordPress publishing. You’ll hear interview with publishers who happen to be using WordPress, and also people in the WordPress space. In this first episode, we chat with Seth Rubenstein, Lead Engineer at the Pew Research Center. He’s been…
I’ve written often that many areas of online publishing are absolutely dominated by WordPress. I was delighted to see that was reflected on the stages of WordCamp US in Portland. We got talks from the New York Post, CNN, iOne Digital, Vox Media, Pew Research, Grist, Harvard, Wikimedia, Time, Disney, and RecipeTin. That’s a lot…
We’re super excited to share some brand new features in the PublishPress Authors plugin. This plugin allows you to create, manage and display authors for all your WordPress content. The latest version of the plugin is available now and it has two big improvements:
PublishPress Authors 4.6 is now available, and it has several improvements to make the plugin easier to use. When you install this update, you’ll find a new block so you can quickly add author profiles to the Gutenberg block editor. You’ll also see a much better way to add icons to Author Boxes. For example,…
CivicPress is aiming to bring the Gutenberg block editor to the US government. CivicPress was built by the team at Lone Rock Point, an agency in Boston. This is a Full Site Editing theme and is built according to the standards of the US Web Design System (USWDS). That system was created about 10 years…
Many of us spend a lot of time working on our content. We spend hours making sure the spelling, grammar, punctuation are as good as possible. So we are worried about losing content. What happens if my browser crashes? What happens if someone edits my post and makes a mistake? Fortunately, WordPress has the solution:…